The daily of the Nouvel Observateur Founded in 1977 by the
chief executive of
Le Nouvel Observateur,
Le Matin de Paris shared its director, capital, journalists and structures with
Jean Daniel's weekly paper. These links were at first capitalistic in nature in which, by the bias of the SA
Le Nouvel Observateur du Monde (with 2 million Francs) or by that of its CEO
Claude Perdriel (with 2.24 million Francs), the weekly and its director controlled 53% of its initial capital. Later, in February 1978,
Le Nouvel Observateur put 1,750,000 francs at
Le Matin's disposal, constituting new financial assistance opposed by the personnel of
Le Nouvel Observateur. This financial support was brought about on the daily newspaper's board of directors by a very strong presence of those responsible for
Le Nouvel Observateur. Thus, alongside his general administrator
Bernard Villeneuve, "faithful right-arm of Claude Perdriel" in charge of the
Observateurs promotion and sales, are presently Gilles Martinet (co-founder of the
Observateur), Philippe Viannay (
Observateur's editorial advisor) and, until his death in May 1979, Jacques Deshayes (technical advisor and member of the committee of direction of
Observateur). This presence reinforced itself in April 1981 with the addition of
Jean Daniel (editorial director of the
Observateur) and of
Roger Priouret (editorial writer to RTL and to
Observateur), with only Roger Colombani (chief editor, assisting with the morning edition of
France Soir) not historically linked to the newspaper of the rue d'Aboukir.
A daily highly engaged on the side of the PS The agony of Le Matin de Paris ==Figures on
Le Matin de Paris==